ROFLing….I don’t know why I skip keys and stuff like that. It usually happens when I’m typing in a hurray (so it happens often!). My capitals don’t capital and I have to go back an re-do them, skip letters, and mess up the a-s-d keys at times…must be the keyboard I’m sure 😀

We are the actors, playing our roles. When we try to be some one else, the drama of life comes out to be shabbier. But who will tell this wretched heart… that always aspires to be branded in some one else’s chest but for this one where a vacuum regularly calls for it.
Don’t mind my ranting… Really well-written creation. 🙂

Yes! This is excellent! I wish more people understood this truth! I don’t think any of us see ourselves as others do, nor do we believe in our hearts that we can change ourselves, improve ourselves as we think we should be. Super poem!

It is difficult to see ourselves objectively and requires a lot of introspection, or so I believe, but in doing so we can be more honest with ourselves and create change from that honesty. But this is a little beyond the scope of my poem here, perhaps. 😉

How often we interpret improvement as change to meet another or aspire to be like someone else. Openness to our own selves and recognising the differences within us all the only way to go. You are so in tune with life.x

It’s hard to be original while pointing out ideas that should be self-evident. This poem is, however, original and sparks ideas about how we should strive to better ourselves, and not to better characteristics we envy in other people. I hope I didn’t misinterpret the meaning though!

ps. I like your other poems too. They are able to capture ideas in a concise form, something which I have trouble with.

Lovely wise poem so beautifully said…again 🙂 I think when we are younger we have mentors or people we aspire to be like and until we fine tune the new learning, we may adopt certain styles for example when I started counselling and teaching, I had a few I admired and it took a few tweaks here and there until I “grew into myself”. But truth be told, when I grow up I want to write JUST like you!! 😀 ❤ , Namaste, Cheryl-Lynn

Yes, I think we can all learn from mentors and aspire to cultivate certain characteristics that are common to everyone, such as compassion, generosity, and kindness, but in varying degrees. Skills and styles in the work environment can definitely be taught and learned. However, in regard to talent, I believe that everyone has talents that are “unique” in some way in that they are flavored by our experience and personalities (i.e., music and writing). What makes us who we are is a blend of all the common traits we have calibrated for ourselves through learning, the talents and skills we have cultivated, and a hodgepodge of whatever else we assimilate into the fabric of our character (my brain stopped working). When you grow up, if you can write JUST like me, I’ll let you take over my blog. 😉

If you are yourself without knowing who you are, how do you know that you are being you? But I suppose there is a great distinction between being and knowing. One can be without knowing, but knowing can help one be.

It is such a simple concept but not always easy to do, unfortunately. It requires a lot of self-awareness and introspection, which is a skill that must be practiced to develop. Thank you so much for your lovely comments. 🙂

i like this very much. i was actually thinking about this idea the other day. if i were to, hypothetically, ever have the opportunity to start my life all over, to be another person with a new story, a clean slate … would i ? my impulsive answer is no. even with all the shit i’ve gone through, it’s part of what has shaped the beautiful parts of me too. so, i am, a horrible and wonderful creature. but i am me. and i love it.